Despite the fact that critics are lobbying it at the time of the announcement, and the audience has learned to hate it over time (with a small percentage that now treats him as a cult horror), I will die as a "hollow man" fan one day. The characteristic of Paul Verhoven 2000 is Boker, a pseudo-serious B horror that is slowly turning into a devil's guilty satisfaction with the almost two-hour duration.

However, it may have been fair to ask ourselves at the time: Did he live by the high standards established by the Dutch director Overall classics such as "Robocop", "Soldiers of ARSVELS" or "Total Reminding"? No. Did she offer a deep message under its context of CGI and the scientific-severe context? No. Was that mean unexplored fun for young Loversbors of Horror? Hell yes! Was there Kevin Bacon accepting his internal villain and not donating as ***-ate a smile all the time? He certainly did.

What I say is that the "hollow man" was a solid and fun horror with some obvious disadvantages. But Moviegoers were certainly capable of considering these topics, as the film quickly became a success in the box office, making a whopping $ 190 million worldwide - critics and today's damn! However, given how self -critical it was, it is interesting to learn that it also has imposed his film for years after he did. Briefly thinking about the past in Interview for 2013 for a Hollywood reporterThe director said:

"I decided after" Hollow Man ", this is a movie, the first movie I made that I thought I shouldn't do. It made money and this and that, but I'm not really me. I think many other people could do that. I think many people could have made "Robocop" that way, or either "StarSHipweight" soldiers ". But "Hollow Man", I thought there could be 20 directors in Hollywood who could do it.

It's hard to argue against the director's words, but I think he was a little too difficult for himself. Of course, "Hollow Man" did not leave behind a legacy like "Robocop" or "Basic Instinct" - though it got it A terrible sequel to a Christian slider Six years later - but I'm not sure if 20 other directors could do it the same way. It may have been just another horror B, but the film needed Verkhoven's and directing style capable, not to mention his surveillance over the frightening special effects, keep them all together and deliver suspicious, if at times over-the-top, action horror.

The STVIPA team also helped the appeal. I mean, these days it is quite rare to collect the caliber of talent that then "Hollow Man" presented then. Starting with Kevin Bacon, who clearly had a time of Heage playing the villain, a beautiful and exciting heroine in Elizabeth Shue, or restrained and still relatively known Oshoshish Brolin as a good man. It was also not painful to add the bomb Rona Mitra for a good measure, along with Kim Dickens and William Devane.

Overall, I believe Hollow Man is criminally underestimated (obviously by its own director, among others), even if we eventually got Superior and better made film Exploring the same idea of ​​invisibility with Lee Vanel's contemporary classic, the "invisible man", two decades later.